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Topic: Give an astronaut a gift!
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derek
Member Posts: 297
From: N.Ireland.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 10-11-2002 10:18 AM
   
Though I,ve only met 5 astronauts, I always give them a small local(Irish) gift,believe me,they,ll talk longer to you than to those who don,t give them a small appreciation for their achievement.------------------
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Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-11-2002 01:23 PM
Derek,
I like that. I've done similar things with sports celebrities. Since I'm an artist and sometimes present original art to be signed, I sometimes give the signers a matted copy of my work. I did this for Ed Mitchell and several Shutle Artronauts. It generally goes over very well as long as they believe you are genuine. This may be considered a ploy to get more autographs and the person may not react the way you want them to, but It always gives me a good feeling regardless of how it is received. |
Rizz
Member Posts: 1208
From: Upcountry, Maui, Hawaii
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-11-2002 11:07 PM
I often times do the same, just a small token of appreciation. My 7 year old son always gives one of his small Saturn V toy rockets as a gift, and they are always well recieved. He has recieved personalized thank you notes from Buzz, Al Bean & Jim Lovell to name a few.I once sent Gene Cernan a can of Macadamia Nuts from Hawaii. He had signed a photo for me adding "Thanks for the nuts" on the bottom. Its a classic!  I would hope that the thought of giving a gift, comes from the heart and with no expectations in return. Tis always better to give, than to recieve. Aloha, Frank |
bruce
Member Posts: 916
From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-12-2002 10:52 AM
I gave Gordon Cooper a "Best of Buddy Holly" CD at his Washington DC booksigning a couple of years ago. He picked it up, looked up at me and said "Hey thanks, I love Buddy Holly!" I immediately had a vision of Gordo Cooper riding in his '57 Chevy convertible "Hot Dogging" around, just like the scene in "The Right Stuff". Great moment for me!Best, Bruce |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 10-14-2002 03:08 AM
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Originally posted by bruce:
I gave Gordon Cooper a "Best of Buddy Holly" CD at his Washington DC booksigning a couple of years ago. He picked it up, looked up at me and said "Hey thanks, I love Buddy Holly!" I immediately had a vision of Gordo Cooper riding in his '57 Chevy convertible "Hot Dogging" around, just like the scene in "The Right Stuff". Great moment for me!Best, Bruce
I have done something different, but in the same direction: I always send them photos portraits or snapshots I made from them during the personal encounter. I got handwritten thank you notes more than once - they really seem to enjoy that. With Russian cosmonauts, I have experienced that they were interested in photos of themselves in space, and several times so. They do not seem to have access to photograph in Star City as the NASA Astronauts have at Houston.
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Jürgen P Esders
Berlin, Germany
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroaddies |
Jacqueline
Member Posts: 344
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 10-14-2002 07:23 PM
The first time that I visited Autographica I went with my 11 year old son. My son painted a picture of Alan Bean on the moon, and presented it to Alan Bean. Well, he was truly touched, but refused to keep the painting. He spoke in great length to my son about his own paintings and then signed my son's painting with the words "To AJ, great painting! Alan Bean". My son was on a high for weeks!. He also signed a photo to him, "To AJ, fellow artist, Alan Bean".Those little things mean everything!!!! Jacqueline |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 10-28-2002 09:06 AM
As luck would have it, I noticed that Brian Duffy was appearing at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia October 26th. I first found out about it (where else?) on CollectSPACE. I can look at my window at work and see the Franklin Institute so there was no way I wasn't going to be there, armed with the latest NASA photos. JSC got everything I requested in a week! Then of all things I found out that the Courier-Post (a South Jersey newspaper) was running a contest "Have Breakfast with Brian Duffy". So naturally I fired out as many entries as I could with only two days notice. Believe it or not I won!!So Saturday My family and one other family had a nice two hour breakfast with four time Shuttle Astronaut Colonial Brian Duffy. As It turned out I did a collage of NASA photos I downloaded from the NASA website and presented the poster to Colonial Duffy. He was really pleased and actually used my poster images when explaining different things to the other guests. In addition he gave us a private tour of the new SPACE COMMAND facility at the Museum and we were treated to a viewing of the new IMAX show "SPACE STATION" that he helped film. Sometimes you get lucky...and it all starts at collectSPACE! |
Wehaveliftoff
Member Posts: 2343
From:
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-28-2002 10:25 AM
I just gave Carl Walz a copy of the new "Space Shuttle:20 years". You really have to push it on some people as they initially find it hard to believe some people actually give them things, instead of asking for sigs,etc. | |
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